Some Interesting FiguresBelonging To Our Early Days
 

Kerala State Electricity Board commenced functioning on 31-3-1957 After Noon as per order no. EL1-6475/56/PW dated 7-3-1957 of the Kerala State Government. It had 5 members with Sri K P Sreedharan Nair as Chairman. All the staff belonging to the erstwhile Electricity Department was transferred to the Board. The 'Board' consisting of the Chairman and the Members is the Supreme Governing Body.


State Electricity Consultative Council
The State Government by their notification EL3-9345 dated 21-2-1958 constituted the State Electricity Consultative Council under section 16 of the Electricity Supply Act. The Council functions as consultative body and the Board is required to place before the council the annual financial statement and supplementary statements if any before submitting such statements to the State Government.

Over the years, the Board has grown many times to reach the present position catering to the demands of the industrial and domestic consumers, whose per capita consumption has shown a significant increase due to industrialization and increased usage of electric household goods, improved economy etc. While it was possible to meet the energy demand from the Boards own power plants in 1958, it has to resort to import of power from Central Sector and also buy power from other power generating utilities within the state to meet the demand for power at present. To meet the ever-increasing demand for power in the future, the Board has plans to take up construction of more generating plants mostly in the hydel sector, with proportionate investment and schemes in the transmission and distribution sector to improve the system. In order to improve the functioning of the Board, the Board has been segregated into three profit centers as part of the power policy declared in 1998 by the Kerala State Government.

Some Interesting Figures Belonging to Our Early Days

STATISTICS OF 1958
The Domestic Tariff
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 1.5 Annas
Installed Capacity
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 109.5 MW
Transmission Lines
110 KV Lines
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 220.176 ckt miles
66 KV Lines
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 835.3 ckt miles
33 KV Lines
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 26 ckt miles
22 KV Lines
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 114.05 ckt miles
11 KV Lines
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 2365.31 ckt miles
Distribution Lines
3.3 KV Lines
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 24.6 miles
LT Lines
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 3826.36 miles
Generation
Total annual internal generation
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441.35 MU
Annual Purchase
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33.53 MU
Annual Sale of Energy
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363.17 MU
Consumer Base
Domestic
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 99977 Nos
Commercial
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 932
Industrial
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 3502
Agriculture
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 1176
Total LT Consumers
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 1,06,154
Connected Load
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 202.394 MW